Fuel Poverty Fact File
Hugh Bown, Richard Baines and Alison Curtis
(January 2000) – a NRFC publication
(available from the Administrator)
Rather than using theoretical indicators,
this report concentrates on types of heating
system and levels of different forms of insulation
in low income households, demonstrates progress
since 1980 and the remaining shortfall
Department
of Trade and Industry
for the general index to Fuel Poverty and
their annual reports and analysis
The method used by DTI to calculate numbers
of households in fuel poverty is described
in a methodology
document and arrives at a figure of 1.7
million households in 2001.
